Peter, Shenandoah, Iowa was home to two major seed catalog companies: Earl May Seed Company and Henry Field Seed Company. Henry Field also did farm seed, and...
Deadline for the next Dispatcher's Office is May 15th. I have a fair amount of stuff, but could use more. If you have an idea or a story send me an email....
As to whether seed houses re-package seed in smaller quantities for smaller farm and home garden needs, they certainly do! Some friends of my mother's started...
For all you guys that like to write down important dates, today is one of them. Effective today all RSSM cars (rail security sensitive materials, generally...
The line is indeed still open in Shenandoah, IA - having lived just across the way in Tabor, IA, up until last July 1st, I know firsthand. Don't know how much...
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Rick Jones
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Apr 2, 2009 2:39 am
... I can just see the bottlenecks starting. -- Rick Jones IBM - Incredibly Boring Machine...
... The Whyte system classifies steam engines by wheel arrangement. Number of pilot wheels, number of drivers, number of trailing wheels. A consolidation is...
... Sounds to me like just another item that they will insist that their train dispatchers manage and watch over. Markers: RFS Robert F. Schramm "Just another...
... From: "Robert F. Schramm" <gmorr100a@...> ... And which trains have work involving RSSM cars, etc, etc. Plus we are pinging the CM's on hazardous...
Roger wrote; ... And people from Asia discovered a land bridge to Alaska thousands of years before Vikings; its just that the Spanish were the first during the...
OB railway operations content: who were the first to bring trains to North America? Were the first trains for people or for goods? Amd what gauge was it? Mark...
Mark, Would we also include "wagon trains" that took settlers to the West as well? Pete Williams UK From: greateastsidery Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 1:20 PM ...
<http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blrailroad.htm> suggests that tramways or wagonways were in use in the 1500s. These early railways would have...
Steve, I don't believe the Spaniards had any railways before 1848, and that was in Spain, although there must have been some mineral railways before that. ...
... Defining a train as a mechanically propelled group of connected cars on a fixed guideway (which eliminated horsedrawn tramways, portage funiculars, wagon...
(English) General Mining Association, Nova Scotia, Albion Mines Railway, 1838, perhaps? Built by Hackworth, the steam locomotive 'Samson' was imported from...
GREAT Research ALL!!! Shows the power of the internet. And especially of a group like this one! I learn more from this group than any/all of the others that I...
... Would that be located at the *Museum of Industry* in Stellerton? I've always wanted to go in there. __________________________________ Drew Bunn - Ainsley...
The Samson is indeed at the Museum of Industry in Stellarton. I visited there in 2003 when I was on a trip to the Maritimes, its indoors and appears to be in...
Hi, I'm about ready to begin operating my layout and I was wondering how other people with the Walthers cement factory handle the switching jobs there. For...
... From: "jcopilot" <jcopilot@...> To: <Ry-ops-industrialSIG@yahoogroups.com> ... At a real plant they wouldn't use "constant switching", they would use...
I can't speak for every operation but a lot of times the cars are on a slight incline and a cable system positions cars. In other cases, a trackmobile is used...
Hi everyone, I was wondering when the protective material placed between and next to the rails under locomotives to catch oil or fuel dripping came into use....
If you can find a copy, the May '95 issue of Railmodel Journal had an excellent article by Jim Providenza covering cement plant physical layout and operations....
